Names Of 40+ Priests Accused Of Sexual Misconduct Released

HOUSTON — The Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston released the names of clergy members they say were credibly accused of sexual abuse or misconduct.

The list, which dates back to 1950 and names 42 clergy who were assigned to Houston area Catholic churches, includes two who face criminal charges.

"The Bishops of Texas have decided to release the names of these priests at this time because it is right and just and to offer healing and hope to those who have suffered. On behalf of all who have failed in this regard, I offer my sincerest apology. Our Church has been lacerated by this wound and we must take action to heal it...," Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, who leads the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, said in a statement.

You can read the entire statement from DiNardo here.

Of those on this list, 19 of the accused are deceased.

Diocesan Priests:

Nicholas Cornelius Antle:

• Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
• Birth Year: 1934
• Ordained: 1959
• Status: Retired 1990
• Removed from Ministry: 2011
• Deceased 2016
• Assignments: Catholic Chaplain Corps Sacred Heart Co-Cathedral, Houston
• St. Patrick, Galveston
• St. Pius V, Pasadena
• St. Rose of Lima, Houston (in residence)
• St. Vincent de Paul, Houston (in residence)
• Tribunal

Robert Ralph Barzyk

• Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
• Birth Year: 1932
• Ordination: 1958
• Status: Retired 1993
• Removed from Ministry: 1994
• Deceased 2007
• Assignments: Holy Family, Wharton
• Holy Name, Houston
• Holy Rosary, Rosenberg
• Newman Center, Wharton Junior College
• Sacred Heart, Galveston
• St. Joseph, Baytown
• St. Jude, Highlands

David Emmett Burn

• Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
• Birth Year: 1935
• Ordained: 1961
• Status
• Retired 1992
• Removed from Ministry 1992
• Deceased 2003
• Assignments: All Saints, Houston
• Annunciation, Houston
• Christ the King, Houston (in residence)
• Our Mother of Mercy, Port Bolivar
• Sacred Heart Co-Cathedral, Houston
• Sacred Heart, Galveston
• St. Francis de Sales, Houston
• St. James, Port Arthur
• St. Mary, La Porte

Moises Cabrera

• Diocesan: Tuguegarao, Philippines
• Incardinated Galveston-Houston 1985
• Incardinated Manila 1994
• Birth Year: 1946
• Ordained: 1969
• Status: Removed from Ministry 1988
• Assignments: Prince of Peace, Houston
• St. Ambrose, Houston
• St. Augustine, Houston
• St. Michael, Houston
• St. Rose of Lima, Houston
• St. Thomas the Apostle, Huntsville

Allen Ray Doga

• Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
• Birth Year: 1925
• Ordained: 1949
• Status: Deceased 1999
• Assignments: Prince of Peace, Houston
• Sacred Heart, Galveston
• St. Edward, Spring
• St. Frances Cabrini, Houston
• St. Pius V, Pasadena

George Patrick Dougherty

• Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
• Birth Year: 1925
• Ordained: 1967
• Status: Removed from Ministry 1996
• Deceased 2002
• Assignments: Christ the King, Houston
• Notre Dame, Houston
• Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission, Navasota
• Sacred Heart Co-Cathedral, Houston
• Sacred Heart, Palestine
• St. Augustine, Houston
• St. Jerome, Houston
• St. Patrick, Navasota

Richard Edelin

• Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
• Birth Year: 1953
• Ordained: 1979
• Status: Removed from Public Ministry 2013
• Assignments: Sacred Heart Co-Cathedral, Houston
• Sacred Heart, Conroe
• Sacred Heart, Pattison
• St. Francis de Sales, Houston
• St. John Vianney, Houston
• St. Thomas More, Houston

Carlos (Charles) Guerra

• Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
• Birth Year: 1953
• Ordained: 1981
• Status: Removed from Ministry 1984
• Left Priesthood 1987
• Assignments: Epiphany of the Lord, Katy
• St. Benedict the Abbott, Houston
• St. Cyril of Alexandria, Houston

Rodrigo J. Guillermo

• Diocesan: Manila, Philippines
• Incardinated Galveston-Houston 1979
• Birth Year: 1928
• Ordained: 1965
• Status: Retired 1994
• Removed from Ministry 1994
• Deceased 2015
• Assignments: Catholic Chaplain Corps
• Our Lady of Fatima, Galena Park (in residence)
• Queen of Peace, Houston
• Sacred Heart Co-Cathedral, Houston
• St. Charles Borromeo, Houston
• St. Jerome, Clute
• St. Mathias the Apostle, Magnolia
• St. Thomas More, Houston (in residence)

Alphonse Rodrigue Hemond

• Religious: La Salette Fathers
• Incardinated Galveston-Houston 1986
• Birth Year: 1916
• Ordained: 1949
• Status: Retired 1990
• Deceased 1990
• Assignments: Christ the King, Houston
• Most Holy Trinity, Trinity
• Our Lady of Lourdes, Hitchcock
• Sacred Heart Co-Cathedral, Houston
• St. Dominic, Houston
• St. Francis of the Tejas, Crockett
• St. John, Hungerford
• St. Joseph, Brazoria
• St. Mary, Cleveland

Stephen R. Horn

• Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
• Birth Year: 1944
• Ordained: 1973
• Status: Removed from Ministry 2008
• Assignments: Christ the King, Houston
• St. Luke the Evangelist, Houston
• St. Mary Cathedral Basilica, Galveston
• St. Mary of the Miraculous Medal, Texas City
• St. Theresa, Houston

William Jimenez

• Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
• Birth Year: 1927
• Ordained: 1953
• Status: Removed from Ministry 1959
• Assignments: Resurrection, Houston
• St. Mary Cathedral Basilica, Galveston

Joseph Giles Leduc

• Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
• Birth Year: 1929
• Ordination: 1955
• Status: Deceased 1981
• Assignments: Annunciation, Houston
• Assumption, Houston
• Christ the King, Houston
• Sacred Heart Co-Cathedral, Houston
• St. Dominic, Houston
• St. Joseph, Baytown
• St. Mary, Port Arthur
• St. Philip Neri, Houston
• St. Pius V, Pasadena
• St. Vincent de Paul, Houston

Jesse S. Linam

• Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
• Birth Year: 1935
• Ordained: 1961
• Status: Retired 1998
• Assignments: Christ the King, Houston
• Holy Rosary, Rosenberg
• Newman Center, Galveston
• Queen of Peace, Houston
• Sacred Heart, Galveston
• St. Ambrose, Houston
• St. Andrew, Channelview
• St. Henry, Freeport
• St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Freeport
• Sts. Peter and Paul, Bellville

Denis O. Lynch

• Religious: Discalced Carmelite
• Incardinated Galveston-Houston 1972
• Birth Year: 1930
• Ordained: 1957
• Status: Removed from Ministry 1993
• Deceased 2015
• Assignments: Christ the King, Houston
• Sacred Heart Co-Cathedral, Houston
• St. Alphonsus, Houston
• St. Mary, Humble
• St. Theresa, Houston

Christopher J. Martin

• Diocesan: Galveston-Houston, Victoria
• Birth Year: 1900
• Ordained: 1924
• Status: Deceased 1989
• Assignments: All Saints, Houston
• Annunciation, Houston
• Assumption, Houston
• Blessed Sacrament, Houston
• Holy Cross, Bay City
• Holy Name, Houston
• St. Anthony Cathedral, Beaumont
• St. Joseph, Bryan
• St. Mary Cathedral Basilica, Galveston
• St. Patrick, Galveston

Donald A. Neumann

• Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
• Birth Year: 1946
• Ordination: 1972
• Status: Removed from Ministry 2013
• Assignments: Catholic Chaplain Corps
• Our Lady of Fatima, Galena Park
• Sacred Heart Co-Cathedral, Houston (in residence)
• St. Gregory the Great, Houston (in residence)
• St. Paul the Apostle, Houston
• St. Pius V, Pasadena
• St. Thomas More, Houston

Lawrence O. Peguero

• Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
• Birth Year: 1921
• Ordained: 1947
• Status: Retired 1993
• Deceased 2000
• Assignments: Holy Name, Houston
• Our Lady of Sorrows, Houston
• Our Lady of St. John, Houston
• Resurrection, Houston
• St. Anne, Beaumont
• St. Gregory the Great, Houston
• St. Joseph, Beaumont
• St. Patrick, Galveston

Dennis L. Peterson

• Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
• Birth Year: 1947
• Ordained: 1973
• Status: Laicized 2005
• Deceased 2007
• Assignments: All Saints, Houston
• Queen of Peace, Houston
• Sacred Heart Co-Cathedral, Houston
• Special Youth Services
• St. Benedict the Abbott, Houston
• St. Francis Cabrini, Houston
• St. Jerome, Houston
• St. John Neumann, Houston
• St. Michael, Houston
• St. Theresa, Houston

Robert C. Ramon

• Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
• Birth Year: 1949
• Ordination: 1982
• Status: Removed from Ministry 2002
• Resigned from Priesthood 2002
• Deceased 2014
• Assignments: Annunciation, Houston
• Prince of Peace, Houston
• Resurrection, Houston
• Shrine of the True Cross, Dickinson
• St. Charles Borromeo, Houston
• St. Frances Cabrini, Houston
• St. John of the Cross, New Caney
• Tribunal

Charles Kevin Schoppe

• Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
• Birth Year: 1925
• Ordained: 1949
• Status: Removed from Ministry & Retired 1992
• Deceased 2014
• Assignments: Resurrection, Houston
• St. Dominic Center
• St. Mary Cathedral Basilica, Galveston
• St. Piux X, Beaumont
• St. Thomas More, Houston

Anthony G. Stredny

• Diocesan: Nashville
• Incardinated Galveston-Houston 1971
• Birth Year: 1929
• Ordination: 1957
• Status: Removed from Ministry 1993
• Deceased 2018

Ivan Turic

• Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
• Birth Year: 1940
• Ordination: 1968
• Status: Faculties Removed 1977

Religious Order Priests

Antonio Gonzalez, OMI

• Religious: Oblate
• Birth Year: 1927
• Ordained: 1957
• Status: Left Priesthood 198
• Assignments: Immaculate Conception, Houston
• Immaculate Heart of Mary, Houston
• Our Lady of Guadalupe, Galveston
• St. Patrick, Houston
• St. Thomas the Apostle, Houston

Jack Hanna, CSB

• Religious: Basilian Fathers
• Birth Year: 1944
• Ordained: 1974
• Status: Faculties Removed 2013 (Galveston-Houston)
• Assignments: St. Thomas High School, Houston

Anthony Keil (Kyles), SSJ

• Religious: Josephite Fathers
• Birth Year: 1894
• Ordained: Check OCD
• Status: Deceased 1969
• Assignments: Our Mother of Mercy, Houston
• St. Francis Xavier, Houston

Dennis Laroche, MM

• Religious: Maryknoll
• Birth Year: 1946
• Ordained: 1974
• Status: Left Priesthood 1987
• Assignments: Our Lady of Fatima, Galena Park
• St. Cyril of Alexandria, Houston

Pius Lawe, SVD

• Religious: Divine Word Fathers
• Birth Year: 1976
• Ordained: 2005
• Status: Removed from Ministry 2009
• Assignments: St. Mary of the Purification, Houston

Raphael O'Loughlin, CSB

• Religious: Basilian Fathers
• Birth Year: 1916
• Ordained: 1942
• Status: Deceased 1998
• Assignments: Holy Family, Missouri City
• Our Lady of Guadalupe, Rosenberg
• St. Basil (Most Holy Trinity), Angleton
• St. Thomas High School

Vincent Orlando, SJ

• Religious: Jesuit
• Birth Year: 1941
• Ordained: 1974
• Status: Removed from Ministry 2002
• Assignments: Strake Jesuit High School, Houston

Walter Dayton Salisbury, SSJ

• Religious: Josephite Fathers
• Ordained: 1959
• Status: Removed from Ministry 1993
• Retired 1993
• Assignments: Prairie View Newman Center
• St. Nicholas, Houston
• TSU Newman Center

Christopher Joseph Springer, CSSR

• Religious: Redemptorist Fathers
• Birth Year: 1925
• Ordained: 1952
• Status: Laicized 1990
• Assignments: Holy Ghost, Houston

Donald Stavinoha, OMI

• Religious: Oblate
• Birth Year: 1943
• Ordination: 1970
• Status: Removed from Ministry 1986
• Convicted 1988
• Assignments: Immaculate Heart of Mary, Houston
• St. Patrick, Houston

Gerard Martin Weber, OMI

• Religious: Oblate
• Birth Year: 1936
• Ordination: 1962
• Status: Removed from Ministry 2011
• Assignments: Blessed Sacrament, Houston
• Christian Renewal Center, Dickinson
• Our Lady of Sorrows, Houston

John Benedict Weber, O.Carm.

• Religious: Carmelite
• Status: Removed from Ministry 2011
• Assignments: Mount Carmel High School
• Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Houston

Andrew Willemsen, CM

• Religious: Vincentian
• (Later Incardinated Austin)
• Birth Year: 1928
• Ordained: 1954
• Status: Deceased 2012
• Assignments: St. Jerome, Houston
• St. Mary Seminary, Houston

Extern Priests (from other dioceses)

Luis (Eugenio) Eugene DeFrancisco

• Diocesan: Cali, Colombia
• Birth Year: 1908
• Ordained: 1931
• Status: Removed from Ministry 1960
• Assignments: Methodist Hospital
• St. Vincent de Paul, Houston (in residence)

Fernando Noe Guzman

• Diocesan: Morelia, Mexico
• Birth Year: 1951
• Ordained: 1979
• Status: Removed from Ministry 1987
• Assignments: Our Lady of Fatima, Galena Park
• Our Lady of Guadalupe, Navasota
• St. Patrick, Navasota

Francisco Ordonez

• Diocesan: Nuevo Laredo, Mexico
• Birth Year: 1930
• Ordained: 1995
• Status: Removed from Ministry 2003
• Assignments: Immaculate Conception, Houston
• St. Augustine, Houston
• St. Helen, Pearland
• (Assisted with Spanish Masses)
• Notre Dame, Houston
• St. Benedict, Houston
• St. John Vianney, Houston
• St. Vincent de Paul, Houston

Joseph Tully

• Diocesan: Rockford
• Ordination: 1925
• Status: Retired 1971
• Deceased 1982
• Assignments: St. Anne, Beaumont
• St. Mary Cathedral Basilica, Galveston
• St. Theresa, Houston

Recent Allegations currently under investigation

John T. Keller

• Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
• Birth Year: 1948
• Ordination: 1974
• Status: Removed from Ministry 2019
• Assignments: Christ the Good Shepherd, Spring
• Prince of Peace, Houston
• St. Frances Cabrini, Houston
• St. Justin Martyr, Houston

***Criminal Charges Pending

***Manuel La Rosa Lopez

• Diocesan: Galveston-Houston
• Birth Year: 1957
• Ordination: 1996
• Status: Removed from Ministry 2001, 2018
• Assignments: Sacred Heart, Conroe
• St. Francis de Sales, Houston
• St. John Fisher, Richmond
• Tribunal

Fifteen Archdiocese in other Texas cities also released names of other priests accused of sexual misconduct.

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